[Chamaco]

Hi all,
I'd appreciate suggestions from all on the following point.

In the strong club (16+) I am playing with my teammates, we use:
- control responses to 1C when responder has an unbalanced hand and
- hcp range (8-10/11-13/14+) when responder is positive balanced.

I won't bother you with the full system (since it's not relevant for this discussion), but the question is:
when responder to 1C (16+) has exactly 5 controls and is unbalanced, should the bidding be forcing to 4NT(and 5 of a suit) ?

Thanks all !!

[FrancesHinden]

I would say no.
I'm not a Precision player, but for a 1C opening opposite 5+ controls, surely you could have something like

AKxxx
Axxx
xxx
J

Qx
Kxx
KQx
AKxxx

Note that's quite a pretty responding hand opposite a 17-count with fitting major suit honours, so I'm not being mean .

It's even easier to construct hands where you have no game, but that's probably a waste of time as you should discount those anyway.

[Chamaco]

FrancesHinden, on Aug 30 2005, 10:26 AM, said:

I would say no.

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Note that's quite a pretty responding hand opposite a 17-count with fitting major suit honours, so I'm not being mean .

Thx a lot, that was my fear.
I'll keep as forcing to 4NT only the 6+ control unbalanced hand